Sentences with phrase «of the council housing stock»

In Kensington and Chelsea it found that 97 % of the council housing stock could be sold when it becomes vacant, in Cambridge nearly half,, and nearly a fifth of that in York.

A large percentage of council housing stock has been sold under the right to buy scheme, particularly in high value areas like Kensington and Chelsea, leaving the council short on housing stock with long waiting lists for council housing.

In the Lords (2.30 pm) question time ranges across the right of return of Palestinian refugees, Brexit negotiations and increasing the supply of council housing stock.

Not exact matches

No one has exact numbers, but 20 years ago rental apartments comprised about 85 percent of the area's housing stock, according to Cary Steinbuck, executive director at the Rogers Park Community Council, a neighborhood improvement organization.

Philip Blond is certainly prolific at churning out this drivel, but for me the essence of Red Toryism is the following section (from the article that Stuart cited): «Councils have used their housing stock to generate cash income for benefit dependency for generations.

«This growing trend (of short - term rentals) poses concerns for the City of New York — in particular, for our affordable housing stock and public safety,» the city's chief fiscal officer said in testimony he plans to submit before the City Council on Tuesday at a high - profile hearing on home - sharing.

Peter Ward, president of the New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council, said Airbnb has been breaking laws with impunity for years, depleting affordable housing stock and threatening middle - class union hotel jobs «that are the backbone of New York's tourism economy.»

The attack on Rent Rebates, has not made Landlords lower their rents.I have seen no sign of it anyway.The fair way, would have been a fair rents cap.Not a bedroom tax, because the Tories sold all the housing stock they could.Most ex council houses are now in the hands of private landlords.You should have tackled those who have more than one home, its obscene that someone can buy a holiday home in a village, and villagers have to move out.

I am also optimistic that the deal brokered with the Welsh Government by Danny Alexander to come out of the housing revenue subsidy system, and which will make # 33 million available to those eleven councils that still hold council housing stock, will see more homes built.

The London borough of Camden would also be among the most affected, with more than 11,700 homes eventually facing a forced sale — almost half of the total council housing stock there.

Andrew Boff, Leader of the Conservatives on the London Assembly, says when it comes to new stock councils should only finance low rise and terraced housing

«It would be very hard to go backwards on that — they would first need to withdraw and re-propose, and by the time everything is resolved, the year would be more or less over,» says James Stock, a Harvard University economics professor who served on the White House Council of Economic Advisers from February 2013 to July 2014.

The study, presented to city council Tuesday, found the residential non-occupancy rate was 4.9 per cent in 2002 and 4.8 per cent in 2014, although the number of empty units rose from 8,400 to 10,800 due to overall growth in housing stock.

The tragedy has highlighted the divisions in society and raised many questions including issues as to: access to justice and legal funding, as the tenants were unable to obtain legal aid for advice due to the legal aid cuts; the legal protection of tenants both in private and social housing; the inability of council tenants to enforce or seek to have enforced basic fitness standards under the Housing Health and Safety Rating System and Housing Act 2004 (HHSRSA), and the purchase of housing stock by local authohousing; the inability of council tenants to enforce or seek to have enforced basic fitness standards under the Housing Health and Safety Rating System and Housing Act 2004 (HHSRSA), and the purchase of housing stock by local authoHousing Health and Safety Rating System and Housing Act 2004 (HHSRSA), and the purchase of housing stock by local authoHousing Act 2004 (HHSRSA), and the purchase of housing stock by local authohousing stock by local authorities.

Other work included assisting Enfield Council with the purchase of multiple properties subject to compulsory purchase orders, and advising Newham Council on replenishing its housing stocks.